Two former longtime employees of Bestway Disposal have joined with two trucking industry veterans to form Carefree Disposal, the latest entrant into the suddenly crowded Colorado Springs trash market.
Darrell Stutzman and Renae Rockwell left Bestway last year, two years after the company was acquired by Canadian waste giant GFL Environmental, and joined with Scott and Ricky Saunders of local trucking company Carefree Heavy Haul to form Carefree Disposal last month. The new company plans to begin picking up trash March 1 from homes in western and central Colorado Springs and expand to the entire city within three years.
Carefree joins GFL, Waste Management, Waste Connections and Infinite Disposal, which expanded Feb. 1 from Teller and Chaffee counties to the Colorado Springs area. Carefree and Infinite say they decided to enter the Colorado Springs market after Waste Connections acquired Springs Waste Systems, the area’s last major locally owned trash company, in December to become the area’s largest trash hauler.